Rachel Quotes

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.

I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

I couldn't love fashion more, like I don't think it's possible to love fashion more. I will say, since I've had my son ... he has surpassed that love

It was never my goal to be an actor.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears...

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.